Avengers: Doomsday & Secret Wars Sets Surprising New Leader for MCU Group

After over six years since Steve Rogers/Captain America had led the Avengers of their ultimate battle towards Thanos in Endgame, it seems like Marvel Studios is establishing a brand new chief who shall be guiding the following roster of the Avengers workforce. As a substitute of Sam Wilson’s Captain America, it looks as if the workforce will now be led by one of many latest characters in Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Who’s the Avengers’ new chief?

Throughout a current interview with Selection, The Implausible 4: First Steps director Matt Shakman has confirmed the studio’s plans to make Pedro Pascal’s Reed Richards/Mister Implausible as the brand new chief of the Avengers within the upcoming Doomsday and Secret Wars motion pictures. He additionally admitted that casting Mister Implausible was the one which challenged him essentially the most, as a result of character’s nice significance in the way forward for the MCU.

“Reed was essentially the most difficult function to forged. ‘He goes from being the nerdy scientist who’s locked away within the lab, to the husband and the daddy who’d do something to guard his household, to the man who’s main the Avengers,’” he revealed. “I noticed that the model we had been constructing needed to have all of these parts.”

Avengers: Doomsday is being directed by Avengers: Endgame filmmakers Joe and Anthony Russo from a screenplay written by Stephen McFeely. The most recent installment will characteristic Oscar winner Robert Downey Jr. as he indicators on for the function of Victor von Doom/Physician Doom. The ensemble forged may also embrace Pascal, Vanessa Kirby, Joseph Quinn, Ebon Moss-Bachrach, Chris Hemsworth, Paul Rudd, Sebastian Stan, Anthony Mackie, Florence Pugh, Letitia Wright, Tenoch Huerta Mejia, Kelsey Grammer, Lewis Pullman, David Harbour, Wyatt Russell, and Danny Ramirez.

The sixth installment may also characteristic the return of X-Males stars Patrick Stewart as Charles Xavier, Ian McKellen‘s Magneto, Alan Cumming‘s Nightcrawler, Rebecca Romijn‘s Mystique, James Marsden‘s Cyclops, and Channing Tatum‘s Gambit. Following the film’s viral casting announcement video, Feige beforehand confirmed they haven’t actually revealed all the forged but, teasing extra casting bulletins sooner or later.

In the intervening time, the Avengers: Doomsday continues to be slated to reach in theaters on December 18, 2026, adopted by the discharge of Avengers: Secret Wars, on December 17, 2027.

(Supply: Selection)

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